Not too many figures I know of, so I had to settle for this one from Wave.

Saber on guard.

The “now on sale” news for this figure was announced at akibablog with quite the headline – 中出し率75.0%　「紅瀬桐葉」フィギュア発売. I’ll… uh, leave the translation of that to the dedicated and curious ero aficionados ^^;

Long black hair, healthy eyes and an ice cold attitude to cut you to shreds. My favorite ^_^

The figure, on the other hand leaves me with a bit to be desired, especially for the price -_-

The hair has a chunky kind of feeling I don’t like, and the face just doesn’t quite capture that cool look she has in the game art…

In the game kiriha has this smirk that’s just delicious. A “nice try, baka” sort of smirk. For me at least, this figure just doesn’t capture it.

Close, but no banana.

After getting erika I really wanted a kiriha in my collection and had few other options… so she’ll have to do for now.

haruhi is back at it.

Nendoroid haruhi vision.

Seems like they could've done a better job with the emblem.

Hair aside... something's just not right with her face...

Fate… actually had a little accident… of the optic nature… while I was posing her today… still trying to get her recovered ;_;

Have some TEA!

Saber ninjas the tea.

The Wave Fortune Arterial figures all come with a matching base and section of the back drop. Catch ‘em all to form the Fortune Arterial logo.

…this of course has me considering the rest of the set ^^; At the moment I’ll pass, as tempting as a full set may be.

Not something you'd display without the whole set ^^;

As pointed out in the foo-bar-baz review, kiriha is taller than the backdrop ^^;;

Maybe they’ll make an anime and then Alter will do a collection of figures… I can still dream I guess ^^;

In the end, despite all my complaints, I’m still satisfied with this get.  If I wasn’t familiar with the game at all, it definitely would’ve been a pass, but nostalgia + mediocrity == good enuf for now ^_^;

Next up, a group extravaganza!

GETだぜ！

As you can see my Wave kuze kiriha and my Max Factory haruhi have arrived! This marks the first and last figure order that I will suffer through having items held until all items have arrived. In this case the other items happened to get delayed so it wasn’t until I finally got fed up and canceled every other part of the order that I was able to get haruhi to ship -_- kiriha wasn’t part of that fiasco, but had the normal us release delay -_-;

I think it’s because I don’t have my collection on display at the moment, but when I got haruhi out of her box, it was just, wow, excellent. Looking forward to having everyone out of the box…

ACTION!

I really enjoyed kiriha’s scenario so I had to get a figure of her… now the cursed set completion mindset is corrupting me… might end up getting everyone orz

Couldn't quite get Fate's arms to mimic the pose ^^;

Alrighty, back to trying to write that H2O stuff I wanted to post…

[update: pics now clickable for full size... not sure why they didn't automatically have that... wordpress must be updating their stuff again -_-]

Some mikuru love incoming, and perhaps some H2O later…

Also got notice of my wave kiriha shipping… fortune arterial fans out there? ^_^